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From April 4 – May 4, 2012 we are running a Kickstarter campaign to raise much-needed funds for the completion and distribution of Shift Change: Putting Democracy to Work. Kickstarter is the world’s largest online funding platform for creative projects. Our goal is to raise $30k in 30 days.

We are counting on your support– either by making a financial contribution and/or by spreading the word about the film and the campaign to your networks– to make this ambitious fundraising effort a success.

Below are some tips and resources to help you play a role in bringing this project through the finish line. These tips are meant as a starting point. If you have other ideas or inspirations about how you’d like to help, please contact us. We welcome your enthusiasm and creativity!

How to Support Shift Change on Kickstarter:

Make a financial contribution. Donate to Shift Change via the Kickstarter site between 8am (PDT) on April 4 and 8am (PDT) on May 4.

Tell everyone you know about Shift Change on Kickstarter (see our social media resources below for advice and samples).

Make sure you are connected with us via email, Facebook, and Twitter, to receive the latest updates, news, and additional tips.

Social Media Tips

“Share” posts from Shift Change: Putting Democracy to Work on your Facebook page. Remember to include a comment about why you support Shift Change.

“Retweet” updates from Shift Change on Twitter. Be sure to include the hashtags #coops, #worker-owned, and #democracy.

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Comments (2)

As an educator, this film looks to be really valuable as a way to inform and inspire students about worker cooperatives. I teach at a university in an impoverished community that has been victimized by empty promises of development by large corporations. When I start talking to students in my class on community and economic development about cooperatives, especially worker cooperatives, their eyes light up. The idea that there could be a different way of doing things is a complete revelation to them. This film will be a really valuable tool to give students a sense of the possibilities–and a sense that there are other people out there who are facing the same kinds of issues they are looking at and who have found an approach that makes a really meaningful change in people’s lives.

Hi Mark,
Thanks for this post. That is one of the many ways we hope Shift Change will be used – as a new and inspiring educational tool that shows employee ownership as not just a good idea, but as a practical, proven model.

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What They’re Saying

SHIFT CHANGE brings you behind the scenes at some of the most exciting cooperative successes in Europe and the United States. This is a movement that’s creating jobs, strengthening communities, and showing that another economy is possible. It’s a movement that’s taking off — and SHIFT CHANGE is the way to understand what’s happening.Sarah Van Gelder, YES! Magazine

One of the barriers to fostering cooperative values and businesses in North America is the lack of awareness of the benefits that well organized cooperatives with good business practices can offer to workers and communities. Educating the public to the cooperative approach to business is an important contribution which SHIFT CHANGE can make.”Ted Howard

The purpose of SHIFT CHANGE is to encourage the development of work cooperatives in North America as one solution to our severe economic problems as well as a means for a regional economy to compete successfully in the global economy. We at the CMRC will use the documentary in many ways.Dan Swinney

This is a very important film on a very important topic that is almost completely neglected by business schools. As our current economic structures veer ever closer to collapse, the cooperative alternative has become more and more attractive. Seeing the sophistication of these businesses and listening to these co-op member/owners talk about their work is totally inspiring. Another world IS possible – and it looks like this!Jill Bamburg, Bainbridge Graduate Institute

The North American worker cooperatives and the Mondragón cooperatives in SHIFT CHANGE tell a compelling story of real possibilities at a time when many think there are no solutions to this current difficult economic situation.Paul Hazen

The U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives strongly supports SHIFT CHANGE. This film on worker cooperatives is a thorough, well-researched and inspiring work.Melissa Hoover

Place-based cooperative ownership is a vital dimension of the diverse, regenerative economy emerging right under our noses. Smell the roses!John FullertonPresidentCapital Institute